Social Commentaries
Book V, Epigram 3 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
A dweller, Germanicus, on the bank that is now our own, Degis, who came to thee from Ister's subject waves, with joy and wonder saw of late the Governor of the world, and addressed — so 'tis said — his company: "Prouder is my lot than my brother's; I may behold so near the god whom he worships from so far."
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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